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County Commission to Retire Long-Term Debt, Make Budget Amendments

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Carroll County commissioners convene Monday, March 14, 7 p.m. at the Carroll County Civic Center, to take on a full agenda of debt retirement, budget amendments, road dedications, and the gifting of a county-owned service weapon to the family of the late Frank Rezac, a captain with the Carroll County Sheriff’s Department.

The county has three long-term debts with the construction of a jail, renovation of the courthouse, and the construction of the Emergency Operations Center. The county proposes to retire $910,000 in debt by paying the debt of the EOC and courthouse.

A proposal to use a portion of the county’s American Rescue Plan funds will be used to help Charter and TEC.

In other business, commissioners will vote on resolutions to add roads to the county road system. The roads are very short and in close proximity to the Carroll County 1000-Acre Lake.

Those include .42 mile of Sportsman Cove; .13 mile of Shore Line Drive; .22 mile of Lake Point Drive; .08 mile of Beech Bluff Lane.

Amendments to departmental budgets are included in the agenda. Those are: $3,085 for the Circuit Court Clerk’s office; $8,153 for the Highway Department the installation of high-speed internet; $33,804 for the purchase of chemicals and equipment; $124,703 for the General Purpose School Fund for instructional supplies and equipment and another $25,596 for technology equipment.

A revision to the Personnel Policy to county employees who served in the military to provide 36 hours of yearly leave to any veteran with a service-connected disability of 30 percent or more to attend appointments related to the service-connected disability.

A resolution to grant employees of the Carroll County Health Department annual leave equal to the state’s program. The new policy would grant employees with fewer than five years of full-time service accrue 7.5 hours of annual leave each month, employees with five years and less than ten years of full-time service earn 11.3 hours of annual leave per month, employees with ten years and less than twenty years of full-time service earn 13.1 hours of annual leave per month, and employees with twenty years or more of full time service accrue annual leave at the rate of 15.0 hours per month.

A canine with the Sheriff’s Department is being retired. K9 Max will be granted to his handler, Agent Kris Byrd of the 24th Judicial Drug and Violent Crimes Task Force.

The service weapon of the late Frank Rezac will be gifted to his family, upon adoption of Resolution 3-11-22.

The county will pledge funds provided by the American Rescue Plan in an amount of 10 percent up to $500,000 total to Charter Spectrum and TEC to assist in the local portion of any federal grant received for the extension of fiber optic-high-speed internet in underserved areas of the county.

A resolution to assist the eight municipal water/sewer departments and the two separate water utilities district with funding is also on the agenda. It would allocate $50,000 to each of the utilities participating in the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation grant. The county’s participation helps each utility earn additional grant co-funding. Total project costs are: Atwood $737,223; Bruceton $831,028; Clarksburg $649,551; Hollow Rock,$714,536; Huntingdon $1,374,418; McKenzie $1,399,636; McLemoresville $641,970; and Trezevant $730,935.